Philadelphia
by Jonathan Demme
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Actor: Buzz Kilman, Denzel Washington, Karen Finley, Roberta Maxwell, Tom HanksDirector: Jonathan Demme
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-09-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Philadelphia
Movie Review: An important educational film.
Summary: 5 Stars
Right when the world needed a film about HIV we got Philly.
Actually we could have used this movie ten or fifteen years earlier.
This movie puts a very human face on HIV and the discrimination that goes along with it.
Brilliant performances by Hanks and Washington.
A brilliant script, direction, and paced very well.
And now I'm going to rant just like I did with Brokeback Mountain.
Philly and Brokeback share the same issue.
Why can't gay people have one movie made about us without the movie stereotyping us as HIV pos. (Philadelphia)
Totally dysfunctional, (Brokeback) Or just plain psychotic, (Basic Instinct)?????
Don't get me wrong I love and admire Broke and Philly.
They were and are two of the best and most important films to come out of Hollywood.
I however think it would be nice to see a movie like............Forever Young (Mel Gibson) with two leading men.
Just one ordinary film without the usual "gay" drama and stereotypes.
Please??????
Do I recommend Philly?
Yes, its pretty much mandatory viewing for everyone.
Summary of Philadelphia
Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) wasn't interested in preaching to the converted; he set out to make a film that would connect with a mainstream audience. And he succeeded. Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Denzel Washington is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream-audience surrogate) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general. The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success. The cast also features Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas (as Beckett's lover), Joanne Woodward, and Robert Ridgely, and, of course, those Demme regulars Charles Napier, Tracey Walter, and Roger Corman. --Jim EmersonDrama DVD Video
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